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Last edited Jun 17, 2025
Created on Jun 17, 2025

This D3.js visualization replays Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign with a Minard-inspired flow map, showing troop strength as area-proportional bands that first advance toward Moscow and then retreat westward, paired with a temperature chart tracing the freezing retreat. The code builds the army streams using `d3.area` with a Catmull-Rom curve, parses embedded CSV data for troops, cities, rivers, and temperatures, and adds interactive tooltips—driven by `d3.select` and `d3.transition`—plus hover highlights and animated styling from the included CSS.

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Napoleon's Russian Campaign Visualization

An interactive D3.js visualization inspired by Charles Joseph Minard's famous 1869 flow map showing Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812.

Features

  • Visual representation of troop movements and losses
  • Temperature chart showing the harsh winter conditions during the retreat
  • Interactive tooltips with detailed information
  • Responsive design for different screen sizes

Technologies Used

  • D3.js (Data-Driven Documents)
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript

Data

The visualization includes:

  • Troop movements with survivors count
  • Temperature data during the retreat
  • City locations with historical dates
  • River locations

Inspirations

This visualization is inspired by Charles Joseph Minard's flow map, which Edward Tufte described as "probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn."

MIT Licensed

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